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Idealised representation of the outer, middle, and inner ear, showing the basilar membrane in the inner ear as a series of mass-spring-damper systems distributed down the cochlea coupled together via the fluid shown in blue, together with the distribution of the natural frequencies of these single-degree-of-freedom systems.
